GeoJSONic Field Notes
Notes from the field.
What the app does, how to get the most out of it, and what's coming next — from the one person building it. No cloud, no account, no tracking. Just the offline location journal you own. Subscribe via RSS →
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What's next: getting your old notes off your phone — safely
The next versions of GeoJSONic and PortaDrive are about one thing — moving the old stuff off your phone to your Mac without trusting a cloud, and without ever deleting something that didn't arrive intact. Here's what I'm building, and why I'm telling you before it's done.
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I Went Looking for the Apps Nobody Sees
There's a chronological feed of every new iOS app releasing today — no rankings, no algorithm, nobody's picked a winner yet. I went looking for it, and found GeoJSONic sitting exactly where an indie app starts — at zero.
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GeoJSONic 1.3: turn-by-turn navigation, and a more consistent globe
GeoJSONic 1.3 is here — Pro turn-by-turn navigation and virtual rides built right into the app, more reliable phone-to-phone sharing, a more consistent map, richer place details, and a batch of fixes across recording, navigation, and data protection.
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A little app, a growing world: GeoJSONic has reached 25 countries and regions
GeoJSONic has reached 25 countries and regions. A personal thank-you from independent developer Jason Dittmer, with version 1.3 on the way.
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Share is a PDF
Sharing a note gives you one file that's two things at once — a beautiful field report anyone can read, and a lossless, importable copy of the note itself. Here's the idea behind it.
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No cloud, on purpose
Every other app in this category is a front-end for a database you'll never see. GeoJSONic doesn't have one, and never will. That's not a missing feature — it's the whole design.
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The journal you own
GeoJSONic is an offline location journal for iPhone — the places in your life, captured with no signal and kept in a file that's yours. Here's what that actually means.
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